Cyber Wellness

Cyber wellness refers to the positive well-being of internet users and a healthy cyber culture for the Internet community. It involves an understanding of the risks of harmful online behavior, an awareness of how to protect oneself and other Internet users from such behavior, and recognition of the power of the Internet to benefit oneself and the community at large.


For children and young people this helping them to realize that when they use the internet and mobile technologies, they are sending, receiving and communicating in a public space. Cyber wellness is about learning the skills to use and communicate with these technologies properly, keeping safe and secure, and learning how to publish, disclose and interpret sources of information online and how to respect other users.

The Internet has become an integral part of modern life and children are most vulnerable to the threats. With the increasing use of the Internet as a source of information for teaching as well as for class and project work, it is important for the school and parents to expose our children to some of the danger of the net. The solution to this problem is not to ban them from using the Internet but to teach them how to protect themselves by raising ‘Cyber Awareness’.

 
-PeiChuan